as in to fasten (on)
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Barron also calls out Dries Van Noten’s retro runners, which the retailer has picked up in a number of colorways for spring, from python to mesh to the below crisp white—there is something for everyone.—
Talia Abbas,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025 -
But Day could bring in a coordinator with a defensive line background who meshes with Larry Johnson to help there after the Buckeyes lost LaAllen Clark, Johnson’s graduate assistant, to Texas.—
Cameron Teague Robinson,
The Athletic,
12 Feb. 2025
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The three were abducted by Hamas from Kibbutz Nir Oz in the terror group's Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel that sparked the war in Gaza now under ceasefire.—
Landon Mion,
Fox News,
15 Feb. 2025
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Horn was abducted with his brother, who is not on the list of hostages expected to be released in the ceasefire’s first phase.—
Jalal Bwaitel,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Feb. 2025
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Hersh Goldberg-Polin was kidnapped at the same time as Levy.—
Mitchell McCluskey,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
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Or Levy, a computer programmer from Rishon LeZion, was kidnapped after fleeing the Nova festival with his wife Eynav.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
8 Feb. 2025
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One final Biden controversy Former President Biden, leaving office with some of the lowest approval ratings of any recent president, got enmeshed in one final controversy.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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The group founded in the late 1980s is deeply enmeshed in Palestinian society, with a strong presence in the occupied West Bank and refugee camps in Lebanon.—
Joseph Krauss,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
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In the initial announcement about the plan to vacate the convictions of felons entrapped by crack-selling stings in Broward County, the convicts were told not to contact the State Attorney's Office or the Broward Sheriff's Office.—
Rafael Olmeda,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Jan. 2025
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His playbook of operations was called the Trout Memo – after the fly-fishing technique designed to entrap trout.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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Watch baseball, football, or any team sport: Players support each other and strengthen their bonds by interacting with each other in high fives, hands clasping or shaking, fists bumping, pats on the head or back—and even hugs.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
17 June 2024
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But hockey fights almost always involve mutual, bone-crushing blows, fists jackhammering from powerful shoulders, sometimes fracturing bones, tearing tissue and rattling brains.—
David Waldstein,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2023
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“Spirit (away or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spirit%20%28away%20or%20off%29. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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